Lop County

Lop County
لوپ ناھىيىسى (Uyghur)
洛浦县 (Chinese)
Luopu, Lo-p'u
County
Rawak Stupa in the Taklamakan Desert
Rawak Stupa in the Taklamakan Desert
Location of Lop County (red) within Hotan Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang
Location of Lop County (red) within Hotan Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang
Lop is located in Southern Xinjiang
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Location of the seat in Xinjiang
Lop is located in Xinjiang
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Lop (Xinjiang)
Lop is located in China
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Lop (China)
Coordinates: 37°04′26″N 80°11′20″E / 37.074°N 80.189°E / 37.074; 80.189
CountryChina
Autonomous regionXinjiang
PrefectureHotan
County seatLop Town
Area
[1][2][3]
 • Total14,287 km2 (5,516 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[4]
 • Total286,900
 • Density20/km2 (52/sq mi)
Ethnic groups
 • Major ethnic groupsUyghur[2][5]
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard[a])
Postal code
848200
Websitewww.xjlpx.gov.cn (in Chinese)
Lop County
Uyghur name
Uyghurلوپ ناھىيىسى‎
Transcriptions
Latin YëziqiLop Nahiyisi
Yengi YeziⱪLop Nah̡iyisi
SASM/GNCLop Nahiyisi
Siril YëziqiЛоп Наһийиси
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese洛浦县
Traditional Chinese洛浦縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLuòpǔ Xiàn
Wade–GilesLo⁴-pʻu³ Hsien⁴

Lop County[6][7][8][9][10] (pronunciationⓘ,[11] Uyghur: لوپ ناھىيىسى), also Luopu[12][13] (from Mandarin Chinese), is a county in Hotan Prefecture, in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. Almost all the residents of the county are Uyghur and live around oases situated between the desolate Taklamakan Desert and Kunlun Mountains. The county is bordered to the north by Aksu and Awat County in Aksu Prefecture,[1] to the east by Qira/Chira County, to the northwest by Karakax County, to the west by Hotan (Khotan) and to the south and west by Hotan County.

  1. ^ a b 政府概况. Luopu County Government Network 洛浦县政府网 (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 18 December 2019. 西以玉龙喀什河为界与和田县、和田市隔河相望，北伸延入塔克拉玛干大沙漠与阿克苏市、阿瓦提县为邻{...}总面积14287平方公里。{...}境内山丘属昆仑支脉，南部最高山为铁克勒克山，海拔5466米。
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference xzqhlop was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  4. ^ Xinjiang: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
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  7. ^ Lop (Approved - N) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  8. ^ Complete Atlas Of The World (3 ed.). Penguin Random House. 2016. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-4654-4401-1 – via Internet Archive. Lop
  9. ^ Che Muqi [in Chinese] (1989). The Silk Road, Past and Present. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. p. 286. ISBN 0-8351-2100-3 – via Internet Archive. Today in Hotan Prefecture, including Pishan, Moyu, Lop, Qira, Yutian and Minfeng counties–places under the jurisdiction of ancient Khotan State which once dominated the southern route of the Silk Road–818 cobbled canals with a combined length of 1,500 kilometres have been built.
  10. ^ Jianghua Zhang; Xianhui Zhou; Qiang Xing; Yaodong Li; Ling Zhang; Qina Zhou; Yanmei Lu; Yinwen Fan; Abu Lizi; Wenhong Yan; Hongyan Wang; Meiling Zhai; Jianfu Bao; Liping Chen; Maihe Tuoti; Haidong Cui; Jian Wang; Baopeng Tang (28 January 2019). "Epidemiological investigation of sudden cardiac death in multiethnic Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region in Northwest China". BMC Public Health. 19 (1): 116. doi:10.1186/s12889-019-6435-8. PMC 6348672. PMID 30691418. Thus, 11 survey sites were finally selected, as follows: the Saybagh District of Ürümqi city; in Ili Prefecture, Yining city and Xinyuan County; within Bayingolin Prefecture, Korla city and Yanqi County; in Hami Prefecture, Hami city and Barkol County; within the Hotan Prefecture, Hotan city and Lop County; and of the Bingtuan, the cities of Aral and Wujiaqu.
  11. ^ Lop. Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World. Morningside Heights, New York, Columbia University Press, by arrangement with J.B. Lippincott Co. 1952. p. 1081 – via Internet Archive. Lop (lōp)
  12. ^ "洛浦县政府网 Luopu County Government Network" (in Simplified Chinese and English). Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  13. ^ Luopu (Approved - N) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency


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